Guild Wars 2

Currently this Asura elite seems to somehow have inherented quite a boost from the latest patch.
One of its abilities, Gatling Fist is capable of delivering in the excess of 60k damage over the course of the channel, on other players. Critting for well over 5k per individual hit, and attacking 12x in rapid succession. Naturally, most players who eat this ability dont even live to see the end of it.

It also does well over 12k damage to gates, but with a longer cooldown, its still getting close to rivalling superior rams on an non-mastery user. But mobile, with no supply cost.

With the tournament starting soon, this is something that needs to be hotfixed asap. Or you will see nothing but asura running around before the weekend is over, rushing through keeps without even the need for siege.

I thought something was weird, I had never seen this elite much before the feature patch. First time I saw it was when I was defending a tower, went to the edge to try and harass the zerg with my grenades, and next thing I knew, I was down. I thought it was just a burst combo from the enemy.

Second time was today while chasing a guardian, he dropped it, I thought nothing of it because I had full health, next thing I knew I was downed.

Better to post a bug report. I don’t think developers read this forum. It’s more used as a place for us to let out our feelings and cool down.

I’ll have to give that a go. Necro’ damage is pretty unremarkable so it’d be nice to have a surprise up one’s sleeve every 3 minutes.

Would make a nice change from getting 12k Eviscerated (on 2600 armor), followed by triple & double chops to the tune of 15k total; death (in seconds) while waiting my heal to go off.

I got rekt by Golem mob too LOL. I guess it is a bug or something.

Time to “experiment in order to enlighten” aka abuse this sucker!

Just kidding, but I am going to check it out.

Dang, son! So I tried it out and then switched back to my FGS after killing about three people. I don’t like abusing stuff but I like seeing what’s up. So just for everyone’s reference, there is definitely a problem here.

Holy….6,000 per hit?! That’s insane! Chalk another up for the list of things ANet needs to address in this patch. Seriously, did the last feature patch have this many bugs?

Good god, I hope this is fixed ASAP. This is so broken for WvW, and the tournament starts tomorrow…I’m guessing we won’t see a fix until next week, though. Prepare your bodies, WvWers. :\

New golem zerg meta.

Lol this patch has more bugs than a Motel 6.

MightyMicah.7451:

Dang, son! So I tried it out and then switched back to my FGS after killing about three people. I don’t like abusing stuff but I like seeing what’s up. So just for everyone’s reference, there is definitely a problem here.

You’re very lucky – I’m getting 4k-4.7k crits. That’s when it actually hits anyone and doesn’t just float straight passed them.

it is obviously a bug that needs fixing asap!

Looks to be on of those “off by one zero” bugs that qualify for a hotfix.

It’s a feature… ! Why wont you understand? … :’(

Heard about this bug then tested it in action.

All I can say is holy mother of god the golem kicks kitten now.

Really hope they fix it before tourny starts otherwise we will see hundreds of them being popped at once all the time.

I know the servers that my server tends to be put up against will use any trick they can to win including wall glitching, zoom glitching etc… so abusing this by the hundreds won’t even make them think twice.

Seems to be a universal bug for all golems that use that skill or at least it has also affected the ones in the thaumanova fractal so probably many others.

Belorn.2659:

Looks to be on of those “off by one zero” bugs that qualify for a hotfix.

One or two yah.

Reminds me of the Mesmer “descent into madness” trait bug that creates a chaos storm on falling damage.

Instead of 300 or so damage per pulse it was doing 30,000 per pulse, lol. Lasted for a few hours before a patch came.

Ah here it is:

This is awesome! A genuinely useful and actually powerful racial elite! :O

The truth is, the golem is actually mostly useless. Yes, it can win 1v1s for you but it only stays for about 37 seconds (despite the 40 second description) and that is only if someone doesn’t sneeze on it. Mostly when I pulled it out, the enemy would just destroy it in a couple seconds before it could butcher them.

MightyMicah.7451:

The truth is, the golem is actually mostly useless. Yes, it can win 1v1s for you but it only stays for about 37 seconds (despite the 40 second description) and that is only if someone doesn’t sneeze on it. Mostly when I pulled it out, the enemy would just destroy it in a couple seconds before it could butcher them.

If only there was some way to make them not visible to opponents… I wonder…

It’s not just the suit, go face the inquest golems outside Mount Maelstrom, one of those one-shotted me last night with their powerfist ability.

LOL. God kitten I never wished I had an asura until now, that looks hilarious. Please hunt LB rangers with it

This is still broken after the most recent patch said to have fixed it.

If possible, it might be good to disable the whole skill until it can be fixed.

Stuff like this doesn’t happen all too often. i’m glad I spent sometime being OP and took some great screen caps too